In Pakistan, if you are considered to have insulted Islam in some way, you may be beaten to death and your body burned in a brick kiln. In the U.S., if you say that this kind of thing is wrong and should not be done, you will be excoriated as a “bigot,” a “racist,” and an “Islamophobe,” and shunned by all right-thinking people. “Police: Christian Couple Killed for ‘Desecrating Koran’ in Pakistan,” Naharnet, November 4, 2014 (thanks to Anne Crockett):

An enraged Muslim mob beat a Christian couple to death in Pakistan and burnt their bodies in the brick kiln where they worked on Tuesday for allegedly desecrating a Koran, police said.

The incident took place at the town of Kot Radha Kishan, some 60 kilometers (40 miles) southwest of the city of Lahore, and is the latest example of mob violence against minorities accused of blasphemy.

“A mob attacked a Christian couple after accusing them of desecration of the holy Koran and later burnt their bodies at a brick kiln where they worked,” local police station official Bin-Yameen told Agence France Presse.

“Yesterday an incident of desecration of the holy Koran took place in the area and today the mob first beat the couple and later set their bodies on fire at a brick kiln,” he added.

Another police official confirmed the incident. The victims were only identified by their first names, Shama and Shehzad, and were a married couple.

Pakistan’s brick kiln workers are often subject to harsh practices, with a study by the Bonded Labor Liberation Front Pakistan estimating that 4.5 million are indentured laborers.

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has constituted a three-member committee to fast track the investigation of the killings and ordered police to beef up security at Christian neighborhoods in the province, an official from his media office told AFP.

Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in the majority Muslim country, with even unproven allegations often prompting mob violence.

Anyone convicted, or even just accused, of insulting Islam, risks a violent and bloody death at the hands of vigilantes….

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this why the west must have qur’anic toilet paper to be available in every home and business to protest this brutal evil demonic religion of Satan /Allah and to show the evil adherents tthe cult od death formerly known as islam that we will not be bullied here!

I wish they would start selling Qur’an printed toilet paper at the supermarket. If people could toss the Qur’an into their shopping trolley every week and then later flush it down the toilet, they would soon get the message that the Qur’an is only good for one thing.

God, Allah, Jahweh (JHWH), The Implicate Order of the Universe… we all worship the same Creator.

God is good. Men — who ‘interpret’/twist His commandments and claim to know His divine intentions — are evil. Life is only a flicker of an eye. At the end, we all face judgment for our actions, and that judgment is eternal.

Jen is not ignorant, Christy, but you are. Jen’s point, which you completely missed, is that Muslims from Mohammed onwards have distorted what a monotheistic deity is or should be, irrespective of what you call that deity. As I have put it previously here at JW, if Islam is the true religion (it isn’t), then God is a jerk and we live in a very creepy universe. The only option then for noble human beings is to emulate Prometheus.

You see, Islam should be rejected whether it is true or not. If false, it is vile. If true, it is still vile.

Interesting how the dirty Muslim “Christy” mentioned Arabic language and culture, as if *any* of that (or anything else for that matter!) could possibly change what Islam is!

Islam is vile. It will always be vile. No amount of ‘dressing’ the Religion of Death in any other terms will prevent this from being true.

Like I said last time, “Christy” would prefer we constantly deviate from the topic of Islam. Almost as if to say “you’re a hypocrite” if you don’t attack other bad things in this world, besides Islam. Even though this website is specifically about Islam!

And another dirty thing that this Muslim troll tries to do, is again bring Christians into this.

I’m well aware of the meaning of the *word* “Allah.” But it is not the *word* that is important but the meaning associated with it.
I used “Allah” in this context, only in relation to Muslims because this website is about Islam and the Christian idea of “God” is very different from the idea of what Muslims call “God”. Which almost everyone reading JW knows anyway, so you can almost take it for granted.

Muslims don’t want to stick to the topic of Islam. They would rather change the subject or nit pick at minor issues which have no bearing on how Muslims will treat non-Muslims.

And I’m learning to speak Arabic at present anyway….
Arabic isn’t the problem. It’s Islam and Muslims which are the problem.

What Muslims do, much like “Christy,” is keep a stash (list) of all other atrocities in world and then use this ‘list’ to sling mud on people who (rightfully) criticise their ‘religion.’ (Other than creating bizarre theories).

Notice how Muslims defending the Muslim rape gangs post *rape* statistics from elsewhere? (even without confirmation that none of the attackers within the statistics were Muslim?).

When something is so indefensible like Islam is, there is nothing else left for these people to do.

It shows you how depraved their mindset is. If the world cannot change the vile mindset of these people, then eradicating them is the only possible solution. There will never be peace with Islam.

This Muslim troll never does get sick of posting this same information. No matter how many times people tell her how much on an asshole it (and her other comments) makes her look, and no matter who corrects her on her poor attempt to take the focus away from Islam.

Islam, a ‘religion’ which will be widely known in future as the Religion of Death, and not the lie that has been propagated that it is the ‘religion of peace.’
A terrible lie which is partly responsible for inaction and which is contributing to people being killed.

The Religion of Death is massacring Christians and that’s the point that everyone reading about Islam needs to understand about ‘cooperation’ between Islam and Christianity. Killing of Christians and other non-Muslims is perfectly Islamic.

For any new readers to Jihad Watch, please take the time to read some of Robert Spencer’s pamphlets which you can find by clicking on the tab at the top of this blog. Also take the time to download copies of Islam’s ‘religious’ books and read them for yourself.

As any decent human being, which I trust will be the majority of readers to the JW blog (minus the Muslim trolls), you will find yourself revolted by the idea that this ‘thing’ has even been dignified with ‘religious’ status in 2014. And worst of all, is the vile idea that roughly 23% of the world’s population calls themselves ‘Muslim.’

What a huge stain of (blood-soaked) embarrassment that name will bear in future.

You were doing great until you got to Israel. The checkpoints are not there to keep Christians from worshipping as they choose, but to protect all Israelis, no matter their religion or Ethnicity, from terrorism and intent to do harm. We have checkpoints in our US airports, at border points with Canada and Mexico, in Courthouses and Federal Buildings, etc. This is for security, not bigotry.

Whatever potential or actual harm to Christians come from non-Muslim sources, still at the top of such an infamous list, easily at the top of such a list, has to be put totalitarian Islam and its deluded believers.

You know, Christy, a mind is a terrible thing to waste. One of the “better” ways of wasting a mind is to be mired in tu quoque “reasoning,” as you are. Wise up if you can, which I rather doubt you ever will.

Regards to your comment on Hindu radicals, i completely oppose radicalism and violence in all its forms, religion is a private matter of each individual.

That being said, in India the problem with the Christian Evangelists is acute, these people are at the forefront of spreading hate and bigotry in the following manner:

– building churches always besides / very near to ancient Hindu places of worship (not a problem per se) but indulge in the following:
– issuing leaflets outside temples saying that if Hindus dont embrace Christ
they will burn in hell fire;
– making hate speeches in church sermons ridiculing Hindus form of worship and calling Hindus devil worshipers;
– going door to door in every Hindus house and saying if they dont convert they will burn in hell;
– going to the poor and mass marketing Christianity by offering supply of condensed milk/ food items for free for two months if the poor convert to Christianity (after that you are on your own!);
– chanting slogans outside temples against Hindus/ spraying painting “Hell fire” awaits to non believers;

Evangelical Christianity like Islam has taken a political form and in some parts like North east are even encouraging/ aiding insurgency against the Indian Union.

In India, a Hindu majority country and which allows all religions to flourish beside it, these people are taking undue advantage of Hindu tolerance and abusing the majority faith leading to violent back lashes and even formation of organised Hindu resistance groups as people are getting fed up with this and are being pushed to a wall.

What Christian evangelists (backed by Western money) and Islamists (backed by Oil money) are doing in India is unjustified and is causing social upheaval and chaos to a country that is trying to focus on uplifting its people from poverty.

A Hindu goes to a temple and prays – thats all. With Abrahamic religions (Islam/ Chrstianity/ Judaism) in addition to prayer you are exposed to the preacher as well who will give political and intolerant messages in addition to ‘Jesus loves you’.

As a Hindu, questioning ones own faith and beliefs is always a given as a person is a Hindu by choice and not by compulsion unlike Islam and Christianity where burning in Hell fire is the threat of not believing/ following in the prophets like Jesus or Muhammad.

A message to Foreign evangelists – please cease and desist, if a person wants to change his/ her faith they will come to you but please dont threaten people with things like we will burn in hell fire if we dont believe in Jesus Christ or Muhammad (Abrahamic faith).

Hinduism core philosophy is:
– one God,
– many names and roles for God (Creation, maintenance and destruction);
– God has myriad forms/ manifestations and will appear to you in the form that appeals to you the most;
– God can be reached many different ways including through prayer/ yoga and detachment from all material/ worldly desires/attachments.

i.e. Hinduism is not ‘my way or highway approach’ i.e. it is a ‘Santana Dharma’ or Universal religion.

In Hinduism – If we believe in God we will reach God and will not burn in HELL FIRE even if we dont believe in GOD’S MESSENGERS – SIMPLE!!!!

We dont need to believe in Jesus, Mohammad or Moses or anyone else who claims to have spoken to God and on whom we as humans end up placing a blind trust and faith on.

My main concern with prophet based system of religion is (Abrahamic) – WHAT IF THEY ARE LYING??????? Muslims are committing heinous crimes based on a belief which they hold to be true i.e. paradise if they murder non-believers who are enemies of Allah.

What Lord Buddha (before Christ was born!!) said is relevant for todays Chaos –

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”

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